The Amulet of Samarkand is really good, it's about magic. If you like that, there are 2 other books in the series.

ahh, so many great books out their I don't know what to say. Here are a few I've read in the past few months that I've really enjoyed:

The Road- Cormac McCarthy (recently won Pulitzer Prize in fiction for this book)
Raintree County- Ross Lockridge JR (this is an amazing book, but you have to be dedicated to finishing because its quite long, 1050 pages about, and can be somewhat slow at times)
The Things They Carried- Tim O'Brien
Our Town- Thorton Wilder (a play)

I recently read a book for my english class called "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson. There is also a movie based on this book. I found it very good, its more of a teen girl book I guess, but not the drama ones [which i hate], its about life and learning to get through the obstacles life throws at you. Its a very good book. You might actually learn something from it, I did.

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

It's an awesome vampire series put its not your typical wanna-be lame scary vampire books, it's really original, it's a romance so usually it appeals more to girls but hey, fellas can read romance too!

I think this year, the books-choice has been really awesome and I'd recommend reading:

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Krik Krak by Edwidge Danticat
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian

Ok, i am gonna recomend The Ink series.
1st book-Inkheart
2nd-Inkspell
3rd-Ink____ not named yet.

They are very good and are VERY magical! if you like Harry Potter, the you'll like these books! the main character, Meggie, is very likeable.

The Kite Runner is an amazing book!

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is one of the most interesting books I've ever read, outside of the HP books. Very strange, very deep and very thought provoking.

I like loads of books.Hardy Boys,Famous Five,Nancy Drew are some of my faves.

Peter and the Starcatchers. It's like a prelude to Peter Pan except way better than peter pan.

i love the maximum ride books by james paterson its about agroup of 6 kids from 6 to 14 years old and thier part bird and they have wings. they are scifi books but their wonderfull

The Little Prince.


adorable.
meaningful.
timeless.
classic.

One of the best series I have ever read is the "Anne of Green Gables" series. There's 8 of them, and they have to be one of my most treasured books ever read. I read them for the first time in 4th grade and am re-reading them now after over a decade of sitting on my bookshelf looking pretty.

anything from paulo coelho and jostein gaarder...you can start with the alchemist and solitaire mystery
catcher in the rye
pride and prejudice
memoirs of a geisha
tuesday with morrie and five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
sherlock holmes
converstions with god trilogy

Set This House in Order - Matt Ruff

Subtitled "A Romance of Souls", this book is about two people with DID. (Dissociative Identity Disorder... They're multiple personalities.)

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

It's an amazing book.

the glass castle by jeanine wall is awesome, and definetly memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden. also, another great vampire book is the historian by elizabeth kostova.

Well for anyone who hasn't read them, I suggest reading books by Anne Rice, they are beautifully written and I just love them. Love the Vampire Chronicles better than the series about the Mayfair witches though, but that's just me.
And for adult readers I suggest Poppy Z. Brite's books (of you can stand that they're quite macabre) and the books by laurell K. hamilton, particularly the Merry gentry series. About a fey princess that comes back to the sidhe court and into her powers. Very nice, if you like that kind of thing.
Oh and, again for adult readers, the Kushiel's dart series by Jacqueline Carey. Amazing.

For everyone: The Old Kingdom trilogy, by Garth Nix. Great series!

Sakura mentioned The Things They Carried. That's an excellent book and I would recommend it to anyone. It's very scattered but it mimics human memory and how, through memory, we percieve events. It's a metafiction (a fictional book telling how how to write fiction) that goes through this guy's trials in Vietnam. Throughout the entire thing is questions the reality of the events and while the book is fiction, you still have that nagging feeling in the back of your mind as to whether it's real or not. It's all about perception. How you remember something can be vastly different from how someone else remembers the same event. One constant in the book is Ted Lavendar and how he was killed by sunlight. That's how the narrator remembers him dying. He stepped on a mine but he was backlit by the sun's rays. It's a very good book.

For classics, The Great Gatsby (so poignant, especially in today's society of money and fame and raising children that don't know the value of a dollar) and anything by Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Maurie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, very fast reads and very good).

For recent, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova which, I believe, is being made into a movie. It's a modern day Dracula but without the romanticism that Stoker but into it. It's very much steeped in very accurate history around the legend of Dracula and the Transylvania area and Istanbul. It's kind of spooky because Kostova makes everything so real. I would recommend it to anyone.

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is an old, but amazing book.

I reccomend it for anyone who wants a different perspective on things, and the world in general.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. This book covers everything from the existence of god to the human psyche. A true marvel of human thought, put into words by one of the finest authors of all time. Recommended to everyone who is willing to put the time into understanding oneself and others.

I recommend Stargirl, by Jerri Spinneli.

ANything by Lurlene McDaniel is a heart~wernching book. They are all so sweet!

Geez, where to start! XD

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
The Bloody Jack Series - by L.A. Meyer (WICKED AWSOME)
ANYTHING AT ALL that's been written by Scott Westerfeld is a good book (he has about 5 or six books)

*Peter and The Starcatchers by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry
*Peter and The Shadow Thieves by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry